Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those stirring words uttered last week by the Rev. Ian Paisley, 54, the durable firebrand of Ulster politics, had a strangely familiar ring, it was not accidental. Precisely the same call to arms had been issued 69 years earlier by Ulster Hero Sir Edward Carson, when he rallied fellow Protestants fighting to keep their ties to the United Kingdom rather than accept Irish home rule and Catholic domination. Paisley, too, was seeking to stir support among Ulster's 1 million Protestants against any conceivable sellout to the Catholics, and he had an additional motive. With local elections scheduled...
...vitamins and minerals. So the film's first half mines the comfy-cozy, utterly on-pitch humor of an old Carol Burnett skit. In the happy California suburb of Tasty Meadows, every room is decorated in the pastels of progressive kindergartens, and the residents' chief concern is ring around the collar. In this cheerfully sterile atmosphere, where brains are not only washed but presoaked, Tomlin's goofy, blissed-out smile serves as both benediction and subversion...
...last week filed suit charging that a group of boxing promoters and a key accomplice inside the bank had pulled off a colossal $21 million embezzlement. The alleged sting was by far the largest computer bank fraud in history and raised some troubling questions: How could such an unlikely ring of conspicuous sports personalities so easily rob a multibillion-dollar bank? How vulnerable is the banking industry to a wave of similar computer capers now that punch cards and print-outs have replaced ledger books...
...story wends its predictable way from hostility to love to fight to compromise, the same pattern as hundreds of movies of the era. Script-writer Peter Stone (who worked from a screenplay by Ring Lardner Jr. and Michael Kanin) might have attempted to elevate the drama from the cliched formula to examine the two-career relationship in the '80s. Stone, however, stuck with the original material, and the show labors with a hackneyed script, enlivened by some snappy repartee, but devoid of anything more than situation comedy level significance...
...snoozing through committee hearings, would-be Senators are lining up for his job. Maureen Reagan, Governor Jerry Brown, and Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. have all been mentioned as candidates. Last week Gore Vidal, 55, author (Burr, The Best Man) and perennial talk-show guest, tossed his hat into the ring because, he says, "I'm terrified at the caliber of people in politics." By way of example, Vidal cites President Reagan's Inaugural Address: "It had all the resonance of a Brim coffee commercial." Besides a certain verbal flair, Vidal brings experience to his candidacy...